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ROCKET R58 ESPRESSO MACHINE
The ultimate coffee-making experience, straight from Milan! Every component of this dual boiler power-house is commercial-grade, and designed to deliver the best stability, precision, and control a home barista could ask for. Capable of steaming perfectly silky foam and simultaneously pumping out up to 40 espresso shots per hour, the R58 makes entertaining not only easy, but impressive!
JURA S8 SUPERAUTOMATIC ESPRESSO MACHINE
Create any of 15 different specialty coffees, exactly the way you like them, with just the push of a button on the Jura S8 espresso machine! The latest in espresso technology, from the speedy Aromag3 grinder to the Pulse Extraction Process, comes together in a compact and stylish Swiss design. The easiest way to make café-quality coffees at home!
ROCKET MACINATORE FAUSTO ESPRESSO GRINDER
Quiet, precise, and fast — with stepless grind adjustment and robust 65mm stainless steel burrs, the Fausto brings professional barista functionality to your home kitchen. Grind clump-free, again and again with a shot timer that you can program to suit your particular taste. The so-called daily grind is more love than labour with an Italian companion like this one!
ROASTER CENTRAL COFFEE GIFT PACK
How do you buy a discerning coffee-lover a bag of freshly-roasted beans they’ll love? Give them a Gift Pack from Roaster Central, Vancouver’s FIRST coffee-tasting centre! This certificate includes a tasting flight of three different coffees from over 40 carefully-curated selections spanning a range of regions and roast levels, plus any three bags of beans to take home.
A choose-your-own adventure every coffee-drinker will love!
Housing precarity isn’t an abstract term to Vancouver poet, editor, and writer Chelene Knight.
Her memoir, Dear Current Occupant, recounts growing up in 20 different homes in the form of letters to people now living in those dwellings.
On December 8, this riveting work that is tinged with optimism was honoured with the City of Vancouver Book Award. Knight, programming director of the Growing Room festival, received the award at the Vancouver Public Library’s central branch, along with a $3,000 cash prize.
The other finalists were Georgia Straight writer Travis Lupick (Fighting for Space), Erín Moure (Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots), and Rachel Rose (Sustenance: Writers From B.C. and Beyond on the Subject of Food).
In a news release, the city’s general manager of arts, culture, and community services, Sandra Singh, noted that Vancouver has a “deep and connected literary community…that brings forth rich and diverse voices”.
“With the Book Award at its 30th year, we continue to champion creativity and connection through stories that encourage reflection in ourselves, our communities, city,” Singh said.
The first winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award was Paul Yee for Saltwater City: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver.
Other winners have included Wayson Choy for his landmark novel about growing up in Strathcona, The Jade Peony, and Downtown Eastside poet Bud Osborn for Keys to the Kingdom.
Knight, managing editor of the feminist journal Room, spent time in a multitude of neighbourhoods as she grew up, including the Downtown Eastside, where her mother still lives.
In Dear Current Occupant, Knight writes about how much she worried about her mom.
“There are so many stories of struggle and abuse and neglect,” she told Lupick in an interview with the Straight earlier this year. “I think that a lot of young girls think, ‘Well, that’s my path. This is what I’ve seen, this is the way I grew up, and this is the only way to go.’
“I’m showing folks that, ‘Yes, this is kind of rough stuff, but…there is light at the end of the tunnel. You can go through all of these things and still be bloody amazing.’ ”